| Show Round Merry By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. S ALLEN WASHINGTON This This nations nation's capital which is Is accustomed to swank embassy receptions New Years Year's eve brawls and every conceivable form of social politico-social entertainment still is trying to tomake tomake tomake make up its mind what to think of the Paul V. V McNutt reception Some say it will make the honor guest president president president dent of the United States Some say it will brand him with the name once applied to Rube Goldber Goldbergs Goldberg's Gold Gold- ber bergs berg's s 's comic strip strip B Boob ob McNutt But one thing is obvious You cant can't call caIl McNutt McNutt Mc Mc- Nutt a piker His debut to Washington n was one of the most audacious moves in political history He was like the boy who dodges eggs eggs' at the country fair Almost everyone who came to his party was there to eat drink and scoff at the honor guest Seldom have so many social scavengers hovered hovered hovered hov hov- ered around the refreshment table ready to find fault Seldom have so many social columnists jotted down the gateau mille feuilles feuille the patisserie patisserie patisserie patis patis- serie the vol au vent fin de and every other fancy name sure to rouse resentment out in the wide open spaces There was no doubt about it Paul V. V was on the spot spot and and on the spot purely by his own choosing Political Suicide Or As a rule it is criminal tactics for a campaign manager to bring out a candidate more than eight months before a convention The farther ahead he comes out the more people can fire at him Usually such an early debut is political suicide McNutt managers however claim that in Indiana babies are born discussing politics And perhaps they are right Already it is apparent that 1940 will see the bitterest fight within the Democratic party since Al Smith and McAdoo split it wide open in the 1924 New York convention Already the line is beginning to form on the right with the reactionary reactionary reactionary wool the Democrats of Jack Garner or on the left with the new deal progressives progressives progressives pro pro- of Franklin Roosevelt So what could be more natural in any deadlock deadlock deadlock dead dead- lock than compromising upon a good old fash Democrat who is progressive enough to suit the new dealers There you are ladies and gentlemen Step right up and take a good look at Paul V. V McNutt Restless Ambassador During buring the first year that Joe Davies was ambassador ambassador ambassador am am- to Russia he was absent from the soviet capital days Of these 89 days were counted as on official business while were counted as leave without pay The state department gave this information to Representative Robert Bacon staunch New York Republican who complained that hat if it is important important important tant enough for us US' to have an ambassador at Moscow it is important enough to have him stay at his post Note Note Davies Davies Davies' salary as an ambassador is is Foreign clerks employed by the state department for some American embassies embassies' and legations receive as low as per year Budding Congressman William E. E Dodd Jr son of the nazi-hating nazi ex-ambassador ex to Germany will run for the congressional seat now held by Howard Worth Smith conservative arch-conservative Democrat from rom Vir Vir- ginia Young Dodd who is only 33 is is' as vigorous a foe of fascism as his father and served as his fathers father's secretary in Berlin for more than two years Despite his cosmopolitan background Dodd has deep roots in Virginia a factor of importance importance importance tance in his hiS' campaign against Smith He was born in Ashland near Richmond and his home since 1913 has been on a farm at Round Hill near neat Leesburg Dodds Dodd's opponent resembles Sherlock Holmes Holme without the fore-and-aft fore cap and was one of the five southern Democrats on the rules committee who vho ignored intense administration pressure and refused to report a rule under which the wa wage wage- eh e- e h hour ur bill could be debated in the special session of congress Oregon Senator Genial dignified Alfred Evan Reames is one of the most successful business men in Oregon But until he took the senate seat vacated by Senator the other day he had never been successful in his lifes life's chief ambition ambition to to reach the top in politics Reames once ran for tor congress to fill the seat made vacant by bythe the death of hi his his' law in Representative Thomas Tongue but was defeated Again he aspired to the ninth circuit court of appeals but lost out to Bert Haney formerly of the shipping board When Reames tried for a vacancy on the federal district court his friend Claude McCulloch head of the Oregon Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic committee e was appointed in in his stead During some forty years of would-be would politics poli poll tics the only job which Reames ever achieved was that of district attorney for four Oregon counties Reames' Reames term expires this coming November and he has agreed not to run a again ain Now that his lifes life's ambition has been attained he will step down from the senate Copyright 1938 1938 for The Telegram 4 |
